[PATCH] Implement APuP Access Point Micro Peering
gio at eigenlab.org
gio at eigenlab.org
Fri May 10 09:31:16 PDT 2024
From: Gioacchino Mazzurco <gio at polymathes.cc>
Access Point Micro Peering is a simpler and hopefully more useful successor to
Ad Hoc, Wireless Distribution System, 802.11s mesh mode, Multi-AP and EasyMesh.
When enabled almost plain APs communicate between them via 4-address mode,
like in WDS but all of them are AP, so they can eventually communicate also with
plain stations and more AP nodes in sight, without more trickery.
APuP has low hardware requirements, just AP mode support + 4-address mode, and
no more unnecessary complications, like hardcoded bridging or routing algorithm
in WiFi stack.
For each AP in sight an interface is created, and then it can be used as
convenient in each case, bridging, routing etc.
Those interfaces could be simply bridged in a trivial topology (which happens
automatically if wds_bridge is not an empty string), or feeded to a
routing daemon.
Signed-off-by: Gioacchino Mazzurco <gio at polymathes.cc>
---
hostapd/Makefile | 5 ++
hostapd/config_file.c | 8 ++
src/ap/ap_config.h | 29 +++++++
src/ap/ap_drv_ops.c | 31 +++++++-
src/ap/ap_drv_ops.h | 3 +
src/ap/apup.c | 149 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
src/ap/apup.h | 25 ++++++
src/ap/ieee802_11.c | 11 ++-
src/ap/ieee802_11.h | 2 +
src/drivers/driver.h | 2 +-
src/drivers/driver_nl80211.c | 14 +---
11 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 src/ap/apup.c
create mode 100644 src/ap/apup.h
diff --git a/hostapd/Makefile b/hostapd/Makefile
index 73048c1297..c890a7f29c 100644
--- a/hostapd/Makefile
+++ b/hostapd/Makefile
@@ -1415,6 +1415,11 @@ ifdef CONFIG_NO_TKIP
CFLAGS += -DCONFIG_NO_TKIP
endif
+ifdef CONFIG_APUP
+CFLAGS += -DCONFIG_APUP
+OBJS += ../src/ap/apup.o
+endif
+
$(DESTDIR)$(BINDIR)/%: %
install -D $(<) $(@)
diff --git a/hostapd/config_file.c b/hostapd/config_file.c
index bba5b19164..105904789a 100644
--- a/hostapd/config_file.c
+++ b/hostapd/config_file.c
@@ -5058,6 +5058,14 @@ static int hostapd_config_fill(struct hostapd_config *conf,
bss->mld_indicate_disabled = atoi(pos);
#endif /* CONFIG_TESTING_OPTIONS */
#endif /* CONFIG_IEEE80211BE */
+#ifdef CONFIG_APUP
+ } else if (os_strcmp(buf, "apup") == 0) {
+ bss->apup = !!atoi(pos);
+ if(bss->apup) bss->wds_sta = 1;
+ } else if (os_strcmp(buf, "apup_peer_ifname_prefix") == 0) {
+ os_strlcpy( bss->apup_peer_ifname_prefix,
+ pos, sizeof(bss->apup_peer_ifname_prefix) );
+#endif // def CONFIG_APUP
} else {
wpa_printf(MSG_ERROR,
"Line %d: unknown configuration item '%s'",
diff --git a/src/ap/ap_config.h b/src/ap/ap_config.h
index 0e52a9990d..9102db5ed0 100644
--- a/src/ap/ap_config.h
+++ b/src/ap/ap_config.h
@@ -970,6 +970,35 @@ struct hostapd_bss_config {
bool mld_indicate_disabled;
#endif /* CONFIG_TESTING_OPTIONS */
#endif /* CONFIG_IEEE80211BE */
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_APUP
+ /**
+ * Access Point Micro Peering
+ * A simpler and more useful successor to Ad Hoc,
+ * Wireless Distribution System, 802.11s mesh mode, Multi-AP and EasyMesh.
+ *
+ * Almost plain APs communicate between them via 4-address mode, like in WDS
+ * but all of them are AP, so they can eventually communicate also with
+ * plain stations and more AP nodes in sight.
+ * Low hardware requirements, just AP mode support + 4-address mode, and no
+ * more unnecessary complications, like hardcoded bridging or routing
+ * algorithm in WiFi stack.
+ * For each AP in sight an interface is created, and then it can be used as
+ * convenient in each case, bridging, routing etc.
+ */
+ bool apup;
+
+ /**
+ * In 4-address mode each peer AP in sight is associated to its own
+ * interface so we have more flexibility in "user-space".
+ * Those interfaces could be simply bridged in a trivial topology (which
+ * happens automatically if wds_bridge is not an empty string), or feeded to
+ * a routing daemon.
+ *
+ * If not defined interface names are generated following the WDS convention.
+ */
+ char apup_peer_ifname_prefix[IFNAMSIZ + 1];
+#endif /* CONFIG_APUP */
};
/**
diff --git a/src/ap/ap_drv_ops.c b/src/ap/ap_drv_ops.c
index e7396d9aea..4d5dd335de 100644
--- a/src/ap/ap_drv_ops.c
+++ b/src/ap/ap_drv_ops.c
@@ -381,12 +381,39 @@ int hostapd_vlan_if_remove(struct hostapd_data *hapd, const char *ifname)
int hostapd_set_wds_sta(struct hostapd_data *hapd, char *ifname_wds,
const u8 *addr, int aid, int val)
{
- const char *bridge = NULL;
-
if (hapd->driver == NULL || hapd->driver->set_wds_sta == NULL)
return -1;
+
+ const char *bridge = NULL;
+ char ifName[IFNAMSIZ + 1];
+
+ int mRet = 0;
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_APUP
+ if(hapd->conf->apup && hapd->conf->apup_peer_ifname_prefix[0])
+ {
+ mRet = os_snprintf(
+ ifName, sizeof(ifName), "%s%d",
+ hapd->conf->apup_peer_ifname_prefix, aid );
+ }
+ else
+#endif // def CONFIG_APUP
+ mRet = os_snprintf(
+ ifName, sizeof(ifName), "%s.sta%d",
+ hapd->conf->iface, aid );
+
+ if (mRet >= (int) sizeof(ifName))
+ wpa_printf( MSG_WARNING,
+ "nl80211: WDS interface name was truncated" );
+ else if (mRet < 0)
+ return mRet;
+
+ // Pass back to the caller the resulting interface name
+ if (ifname_wds) os_strlcpy(ifname_wds, ifName, IFNAMSIZ + 1);
+
if (hapd->conf->wds_bridge[0])
bridge = hapd->conf->wds_bridge;
+
return hapd->driver->set_wds_sta(hapd->drv_priv, addr, aid, val,
bridge, ifname_wds);
}
diff --git a/src/ap/ap_drv_ops.h b/src/ap/ap_drv_ops.h
index fa89d2398e..ab4dc8eb16 100644
--- a/src/ap/ap_drv_ops.h
+++ b/src/ap/ap_drv_ops.h
@@ -33,6 +33,9 @@ int hostapd_set_drv_ieee8021x(struct hostapd_data *hapd, const char *ifname,
int enabled);
int hostapd_vlan_if_add(struct hostapd_data *hapd, const char *ifname);
int hostapd_vlan_if_remove(struct hostapd_data *hapd, const char *ifname);
+
+/** @param val as per nl80211 driver implementation, 1 means add 0 means remove
+ */
int hostapd_set_wds_sta(struct hostapd_data *hapd, char *ifname_wds,
const u8 *addr, int aid, int val);
diff --git a/src/ap/apup.c b/src/ap/apup.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7c4c832c48
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/ap/apup.c
@@ -0,0 +1,149 @@
+/*
+ * hostapd / APuP Access Point Micro Peering
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2023-2024 Gioacchino Mazzurco <gio at polymathes.cc>
+ * Copyright (C) 2023-2024 Asociación Civil Altermundi <info at altermundi.net>
+ *
+ * This software may be distributed under the terms of the BSD license.
+ * See README for more details.
+ */
+
+/* Be extremely careful altering include order, move just one in the wrong place
+ * and you will start getting a bunch of error of undefined bool, size_t etc. */
+
+#include "utils/includes.h"
+#include "utils/common.h"
+#include "utils/os.h"
+
+#include "apup.h"
+
+#include "drivers/driver.h"
+#include "wpa_auth.h"
+#include "ap_mlme.h"
+#include "ieee802_11.h"
+#include "ap_drv_ops.h"
+
+void apup_process_beacon(struct hostapd_data *hapd,
+ const struct ieee80211_mgmt *mgmt, size_t len,
+ const struct ieee802_11_elems *elems )
+{
+ if(!os_memcmp(hapd->own_addr, mgmt->bssid, ETH_ALEN))
+ {
+ wpa_printf( MSG_WARNING,
+ "apup_process_beacon(...) own beacon elems.ssid %.*s",
+ (int) elems->ssid_len, elems->ssid );
+ return;
+ }
+
+ if( elems->ssid_len != hapd->conf->ssid.ssid_len ||
+ os_memcmp(elems->ssid, hapd->conf->ssid.ssid, elems->ssid_len) )
+ return;
+
+ struct sta_info* sta_ret = ap_get_sta(hapd, mgmt->bssid);
+ if(sta_ret) return;
+
+ sta_ret = ap_sta_add(hapd, mgmt->bssid);
+
+ /* TODO: this has been added just to making compiler happy after breaking
+ * changes introduced in 11a607d121df512e010148bedcb4263a03329dc7 to support
+ * IEEE80211BE Multi Link Operation. Look at that commit with more time and
+ * understand what could be a proper implementation in this context too
+ */
+ const u8 *mld_link_addr = NULL;
+ bool mld_link_sta = false;
+
+ /* First add the station without more information */
+ int aRet = hostapd_sta_add(
+ hapd, mgmt->bssid, sta_ret->aid, 0,
+ NULL, 0, 0, NULL, NULL, NULL, 0, NULL, 0, NULL,
+ sta_ret->flags, 0, 0, 0,
+ 0, // 0 add, 1 set
+ mld_link_addr, mld_link_sta );
+
+ sta_ret->flags |= WLAN_STA_AUTH;
+ wpa_auth_sm_event(sta_ret->wpa_sm, WPA_AUTH);
+
+ /* TODO: Investigate if supporting WPA or other encryption method is
+ * possible */
+ sta_ret->auth_alg = WLAN_AUTH_OPEN;
+ mlme_authenticate_indication(hapd, sta_ret);
+
+ sta_ret->capability = le_to_host16(mgmt->u.beacon.capab_info);
+
+ if (sta_ret->capability & WLAN_CAPABILITY_SHORT_PREAMBLE)
+ sta_ret->flags |= WLAN_STA_SHORT_PREAMBLE;
+ else
+ sta_ret->flags &= ~WLAN_STA_SHORT_PREAMBLE;
+
+ copy_supp_rates(hapd, sta_ret, elems);
+
+ /* Whithout this flag copy_sta_[v]ht_capab will disable [V]HT
+ * capabilities even if available */
+ if(elems->ht_capabilities || elems->vht_capabilities)
+ sta_ret->flags |= WLAN_STA_WMM;
+
+ copy_sta_ht_capab(hapd, sta_ret, elems->ht_capabilities);
+#ifdef CONFIG_IEEE80211AC
+ copy_sta_vht_capab(hapd, sta_ret, elems->vht_capabilities);
+ copy_sta_vht_oper(hapd, sta_ret, elems->vht_operation);
+ copy_sta_vendor_vht(hapd, sta_ret, elems->vendor_vht, elems->vendor_vht_len);
+#endif // def CONFIG_IEEE80211AC
+#ifdef CONFIG_IEEE80211AX
+ copy_sta_he_6ghz_capab(hapd, sta_ret, elems->he_6ghz_band_cap);
+#endif // def CONFIG_IEEE80211AX
+#ifdef CONFIG_IEEE80211BE
+ copy_sta_eht_capab( hapd, sta_ret,
+ IEEE80211_MODE_AP, // TODO: Make sure is the right value
+ elems->he_capabilities, elems->he_capabilities_len,
+ elems->eht_capabilities, elems->eht_capabilities_len);
+#endif //def CONFIG_IEEE80211BE
+
+ update_ht_state(hapd, sta_ret);
+
+ if (hostapd_get_aid(hapd, sta_ret) < 0)
+ {
+ wpa_printf( MSG_INFO, "apup_process_beacon(...) No room for more AIDs");
+ return;
+ }
+
+ sta_ret->flags |= WLAN_STA_ASSOC_REQ_OK;
+
+ /* Make sure that the previously registered inactivity timer will not
+ * remove the STA immediately. */
+ sta_ret->timeout_next = STA_NULLFUNC;
+
+ sta_ret->flags |= WLAN_STA_AUTH | WLAN_STA_ASSOC;
+
+ /* Then set the paramethers */
+ int sRet = hostapd_sta_add(
+ hapd, mgmt->bssid, sta_ret->aid,
+ sta_ret->capability,
+ sta_ret->supported_rates, sta_ret->supported_rates_len,
+ 0, // u16 listen_interval TODO ?
+ sta_ret->ht_capabilities,
+ sta_ret->vht_capabilities,
+ sta_ret->he_capab, sta_ret->he_capab_len,
+ sta_ret->eht_capab, sta_ret->eht_capab_len,
+ sta_ret->he_6ghz_capab,
+ sta_ret->flags,
+ 0, // u8 qosinfo
+ sta_ret->vht_opmode,
+ 0, // int supp_p2p_ps
+ 1, // 0 add, 1 set
+ mld_link_addr, mld_link_sta );
+
+ ap_sta_set_authorized(hapd, sta_ret, 1);
+ hostapd_set_sta_flags(hapd, sta_ret);
+
+ char mIfname[IFNAMSIZ + 1];
+ os_memset(mIfname, 0, IFNAMSIZ + 1);
+
+ // last param 1 means add 0 means remove
+ int mRet = hostapd_set_wds_sta(
+ hapd, mIfname, mgmt->bssid, sta_ret->aid, 1 );
+
+ wpa_printf( MSG_INFO,
+ "apup_process_beacon(...) Added APuP peer at %s with flags: %d,"
+ " capabilities %d",
+ mIfname, sta_ret->flags, sta_ret->capability );
+}
diff --git a/src/ap/apup.h b/src/ap/apup.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..94af03f0a1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/ap/apup.h
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+/*
+ * hostapd / APuP Access Point Micro Peering
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2023-2024 Gioacchino Mazzurco <gio at polymathes.cc>
+ * Copyright (C) 2023-2024 Asociación Civil Altermundi <info at altermundi.net>
+ *
+ * This software may be distributed under the terms of the BSD license.
+ * See README for more details.
+ */
+
+/* Be extremely careful altering include order, move just one in the wrong place
+ * and you will start getting a bunch of error of undefined bool, size_t etc. */
+
+#include "utils/includes.h"
+#include "utils/common.h"
+
+#include "hostapd.h"
+#include "common/ieee802_11_defs.h"
+
+/** When beacons from other Access Point are received, if the SSID is matching
+ * add them as APuP peers (aka WDS STA to our own AP) the same happens on the
+ * peer when receiving our beacons */
+void apup_process_beacon(struct hostapd_data *hapd,
+ const struct ieee80211_mgmt *mgmt, size_t len,
+ const struct ieee802_11_elems *elems );
diff --git a/src/ap/ieee802_11.c b/src/ap/ieee802_11.c
index 1c4dd22da1..3f826408c8 100644
--- a/src/ap/ieee802_11.c
+++ b/src/ap/ieee802_11.c
@@ -59,6 +59,9 @@
#include "nan_usd_ap.h"
#include "pasn/pasn_common.h"
+#ifdef CONFIG_APUP
+# include "apup.h"
+#endif // def CONFIG_APUP
#ifdef CONFIG_FILS
static struct wpabuf *
@@ -3469,8 +3472,8 @@ static u16 check_multi_ap(struct hostapd_data *hapd, struct sta_info *sta,
}
-static u16 copy_supp_rates(struct hostapd_data *hapd, struct sta_info *sta,
- struct ieee802_11_elems *elems)
+u16 copy_supp_rates(struct hostapd_data *hapd, struct sta_info *sta,
+ const struct ieee802_11_elems *elems)
{
/* Supported rates not used in IEEE 802.11ad/DMG */
if (hapd->iface->current_mode &&
@@ -5927,6 +5930,10 @@ static void handle_beacon(struct hostapd_data *hapd,
0);
ap_list_process_beacon(hapd->iface, mgmt, &elems, fi);
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_APUP
+ if(hapd->conf->apup) apup_process_beacon(hapd, mgmt, len, &elems);
+#endif // def CONFIG_APUP
}
diff --git a/src/ap/ieee802_11.h b/src/ap/ieee802_11.h
index a35486d464..d93d27ce6c 100644
--- a/src/ap/ieee802_11.h
+++ b/src/ap/ieee802_11.h
@@ -108,6 +108,8 @@ int hostapd_process_ml_assoc_req_addr(struct hostapd_data *hapd,
const u8 *basic_mle, size_t basic_mle_len,
u8 *mld_addr);
int hostapd_get_aid(struct hostapd_data *hapd, struct sta_info *sta);
+u16 copy_supp_rates(struct hostapd_data *hapd, struct sta_info *sta,
+ const struct ieee802_11_elems *elems);
u16 copy_sta_ht_capab(struct hostapd_data *hapd, struct sta_info *sta,
const u8 *ht_capab);
u16 copy_sta_vendor_vht(struct hostapd_data *hapd, struct sta_info *sta,
diff --git a/src/drivers/driver.h b/src/drivers/driver.h
index 1bbb9672cd..cbcb320b49 100644
--- a/src/drivers/driver.h
+++ b/src/drivers/driver.h
@@ -3976,7 +3976,7 @@ struct wpa_driver_ops {
* Returns: 0 on success, -1 on failure
*/
int (*set_wds_sta)(void *priv, const u8 *addr, int aid, int val,
- const char *bridge_ifname, char *ifname_wds);
+ const char *bridge_ifname, const char *ifname_wds);
/**
* send_action - Transmit an Action frame
diff --git a/src/drivers/driver_nl80211.c b/src/drivers/driver_nl80211.c
index aeb1e6beef..bd9a9b3b7e 100644
--- a/src/drivers/driver_nl80211.c
+++ b/src/drivers/driver_nl80211.c
@@ -8415,24 +8415,14 @@ static int have_ifidx(struct wpa_driver_nl80211_data *drv, int ifidx,
static int i802_set_wds_sta(void *priv, const u8 *addr, int aid, int val,
- const char *bridge_ifname, char *ifname_wds)
+ const char *bridge_ifname, const char *ifname_wds)
{
struct i802_bss *bss = priv;
struct wpa_driver_nl80211_data *drv = bss->drv;
- char name[IFNAMSIZ + 1];
+ const char *name = ifname_wds; // Kept to reduce changes to the minimum
union wpa_event_data event;
int ret;
- ret = os_snprintf(name, sizeof(name), "%s.sta%d", bss->ifname, aid);
- if (ret >= (int) sizeof(name))
- wpa_printf(MSG_WARNING,
- "nl80211: WDS interface name was truncated");
- else if (ret < 0)
- return ret;
-
- if (ifname_wds)
- os_strlcpy(ifname_wds, name, IFNAMSIZ + 1);
-
wpa_printf(MSG_DEBUG, "nl80211: Set WDS STA addr=" MACSTR
" aid=%d val=%d name=%s", MAC2STR(addr), aid, val, name);
if (val) {
--
2.43.2
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